Question: have u ever caught fire to anything during an experiment

Hollie Heard answered on 10 Mar 2018:

Of course we’re always very careful when we run our experiments and have lots of health and safety guidelines and we work with flammable gases such as hydrogen and at high temperatures, (most of the experiments I run at the moment are at about 900’C). Luckily I’ve never had anything really catch fire, but I have had an occasional spark or reaction that we didn’t want where there may have been some of the chemicals left in some pipes or something gets blocked so it doesn’t flow as it should. The thing I have to deal with more are things like acidic fumes as the chemicals I use are have chlorine in them so when they mix/are used in the reaction they make HCl. It means that I spend a lot of my time in a sort of gas mask as you don’t want to breathing them in! Accidents do sometimes happen when you work in the sort of places we do, you always have to make sure you are following any rules of guidelines and have methods in place to deal with any emergency if it was going to happen. What sort of experiments do you like doing?